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Saturday, January 09, 2016

Rolling Stone UVA Rape Story Totally Fabricated

Things continue to get worse for Rolling Stone Magazine which published a sensational story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia. Now, new evidence shows that the entire story was fabricated apparently as part of the machinations of a woman scorned, that woman being "Jackie" the Rolling Stone source. The Washington Post has details on the latest facts to emerge and one can only wonder why the Rolling Stone reporter never bothered to check the facts behind the allegations. Here are highlights from the Post:

Ryan Duffin was a freshman at the University of Virginia when he met a student named Jackie.

Both
teenagers were new to campus in September 2012, and the pair quickly
became friends through a shared appreciation of alternative rock bands
such as Coheed and Cambria and the Silversun Pickups. Early on, Duffin
sensed that Jackie was interested in pursuing a romantic relationship
with him. Duffin valued her friendship but politely rebuffed Jackie’s
advances for more.

Just days after he met her, Duffin said, he was goaded into a text
message conversation with a U-Va. junior named “Haven Monahan,” whom
Jackie said she knew from a chemistry class.

What followed was
what lawyers representing U-Va. associate dean Nicole Eramo described in
new court documents as an elaborate scheme to win him over — a practice
known as “catfishing” — that morphed into a sensational claim of gang
rape at a U-Va. fraternity and a Rolling Stone story that rocked the
U-Va. campus and shocked the nation.

A Charlottesville Police
investigation later determined that no one named Haven Monahan had ever
attended U-Va., and extensive efforts to find the person were not
successful. Photographs that were texted to Duffin that were purported
to be of Monahan were actually pictures depicting one of Jackie’s high
school classmates in Northern Virginia. That man, now a student at a
university in another state, confirmed to The Post that the photographs
were of him.

“All available evidence demonstrates that ‘Haven Monahan’ was a fake
suitor created by Jackie in a strange bid to earn the affections of a
student named Ryan Duffin that Jackie was romantically interested in,”
Eramo’s lawyers wrote in court papers filed this week.

Jackie had told Duffin that a date with Haven Monahan on Sept. 28, 2012,
had gone terribly wrong, claiming that the upperclassman had forced her
to perform oral sex on five other men. That fall night, Duffin was
among a group of friends who rushed to be by Jackie’s side as she cried;
Duffin described her as being hysterical and appearing traumatized.
Duffin said Jackie appeared not to be injured — a red dress that she had
worn on the date was not disheveled or torn — and she declined to go to
police or the hospital that night to report the assault.

Court documents indicate that a crush Jackie had on Duffin freshman year
was the spark for all that has happened since, that the
attention-seeking events on Sept. 28, 2012 spiraled into a sensational
tale that evolved, made its way into a national magazine’s pages, and
then took on a life of its own.

There's much more in the article, but the take away is that Jackie is psycho and, in my view, needs to be expelled from the University under the Honor Code.

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